Because I have a lab environment at home, I turn off my server when I’m ready playing. To turn on my server again, I need to open my browser, go to the iDrac page, logon, go to the Power Management page and click on the right button…
Well, since I’m an “IT guy”, I think that needs to be automated 🙂
Some background information, Dell iDrac supports SSH to connect with. For SSH I use Putty.
Let’s Go! It’s easy!
First copy Putty to an easy to remember folder, like C:\Putty\putty.exe.
To connect with putty, we use the command line interface. This can easily been written in a .CMD script. Save it as PowerOn.cmd. The -ssh parameter connects you to the host and the -m parameter loads a script, a ssh script in our case.
C:\putty\putty.exe -ssh admin@10.0.0.99 -m C:\putty\PowerOn.sh
To power on the server, put the following command in the PowerOn.sh script:
racadm serveraction powerup
The only thing we need to do now is start the Connect.cmd script and enter our password!
Good Luck!!!!!
3 Responses
Hi Bart,
I was wondering if this putty thing can be used if my Dell PC is switched off.
Rickson
What I mean is I have a dell server that needs to be switched on every morning so that 15 other clients can connect to it. Will your suggestion of using Putty serve as an indirect means to get it on or the suggestion only works at server level (and not PC level)
Rickson
I think it will work from any computer. As long as you can reach the target computer. Sorry for the late reply by the way 🙂